Improvement in seeding-machines



.If BOUTON.

Y Corn-Plater. No.V 26,559i Patented Dec. 2"'71; 1859.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26,559, dated,ljecembcr27,1859.`

To @ZZ whom, it may con/cera:

Be it known that I, JAMES BOUTON, of Ma con City, in `Macon county, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Planting Corn and Sowing Seed Broadcast; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure l is a top view 5 Fig. 2, a side elevati on; Fig. 3, a top View when the plate M, and all above it is removed; and Fig. 4 is asection through the line A A upon an enlarged scale, all of which will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the `arts to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe the construe tion and operation thereof. i

Similar letters of reference represent corre sponding parts of the dii-'ferent iigures of the drawings annexed. p i

Upon the drawings, A represents the frame of the machine, which Amay be of the form shown, or of such other form as will best fill ,the conditions of strength and convenience. The frame aforesaid is mounted upon a pair of truck-wheels, Q-and X, the back part of the` a certain number ot' seeds; and over the top oi' these wheels the plate m is fixed upon studs just so as t-o make it clear the said wheels b b, and upon this plate m the two hoppers `T are vfixed and so arranged that one hopper shall beover one oi' the holes d in the wheels b b, respectively. The pipe G is attached to the under side of the plate B, throughwhieh `a hole, c, is cut to correspond with the holes@ in the wheels bb. This pipe C leads in a second pipe, I), which Vis fixed upon the endof the beam G, and the lower end of whichis made The said plate may bemade ot" somewhat in the nature of a plow;` so astofeut y a furrow to receivef the seed as it is dropped from the machine. p s f1 W1 The scraper for covering the seed is shown y at E. It is attached ,to the; end of l the beam G by means of a pin, as shown, the" attaching` f end being made in theifornitoi'` a crotch, so as i to straddlethe Vpipe This said scraperjis kept upon the groundwith more or lessforce by means of a spring, I?, fixed to the beam y This `beam G is attachedtothe `frame of the l s machine at c by means of .as`tiap,l, and screw y e, as shown, and it is heldin position bjr means i of a guide-piece, H," fixedfto theframe.` L The object of attachingthisbeam inthe manner y, described is to allowlthe plowlpipc D toiyield s 3 to any obstruction which maybeinthe way and which cannotbe easilylmoved, and to preventthe said pipe from `risingtoo `easily `a i p, spring, n, `is introduced between the beam v and the frame, as sljiown p g p c 1, ,i

To roll the earth hard uponpthe seed, aupair of rollersare used,(show`n atgI I,) and which w are attached tothewmachine by ineansof the l string-pieces K, whichhave staplesinytheir` upper ends to hookontl'lelhook (Shown at s Fig. l.) New, suppose seedtobc supplied to the hoppers T, the machine being in motion, g l the holes a would belilledas t-heycaine oppo, p site theyljxopper,and from` thence the, seed y would be carriedgtby the motionof theiheels il b b) "toopposite the holesqq, where it `would be deposited inthe pipe @,and ,from thence to* the ground, where wonldfbe covered `iirthe manner aforesaid; "Upon the topfof the plat in, another hopper, Ris ii di braces n, and `in this"hoplpe` y, 'ixcd, which has an opening in p spedgeatfl/g and direct inder thishopper one" end of tinl pipe R lis `ii xcd with a hole` in it, which "corre sponds withthehole intlie bottom of the ho s per I), there being funnelfshapedmouth piece ov-er the hole in the pipe, i hich lits ovf p the under side of thesad hopp which thus i formsa center for the' said pipe to vibrt` r around; The insidel end of thesaidpip `attachedito the c`og-wh`eel` ys,(bynieansot"g p l, Y p ear U,) which `meshes 'nfthcwheeldion the L truck-wheel Q,wh`ich yhns conveysavibratoi i, movement to the pipe11%whereby the aid,`

pipe sows the secdbroadcast. y Thedist g eey the Valve f s open s regulated by the lever t, 2. ,The arrangegnent of the valve f n the Y which is held in notches 1' q n any required hopper P, in the nanner described7 for the p ositon.

purpose specified. Y 'What I claim as my invention and desire to Y y T secure by Letters-Patent, Ais JAMES BOUTON 1. The arrangement of the Wheels b b, pipes Vtnesses: C and D, covers E, springs F and mand the A. RAY, yielding-beam c, in the manner described. AMOS BROADNAX. 

